As this is an ancient monument site there is no physical cache here. Instead you will need to enter the last word of the third line on the plaque at N50 09. 532  W005 36. 378 as the password in order to log your find.

Men An Tol is situated off the Penzance to Morvah road about half a mile up a track. Parking is available at the start of this track. It is sited in open moorland, within an area designated as being historically and ecologically valuable as well as being an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Men An Tol means "holed stone" and it is considered to date from the Bronze age. Its purpose is unknown, although it seems likely that the site was part of a more extensive ritual or cermonial complex. 

William Borlase described the monument in the 18th Century as having a triangular layout, and it has been suggested that the holed stone was moved from its earlier position to stand in a direct alignment between the two standing stones. In the mid 19th Century, a local antiquarian JT Blight proposed that the site was in fact the remains of a stone circle. This idea was given additional support when a recent site survey identified a number of recumbent stones lying just beneath the modern turf which were arranged along the circumference of a circle 18 metres in diameter. The monument today consists of four stones; two upright stones with the holed stone between them, and a fallen stone at the foot of the western upright.

Folklore and tradition about Men An Tol state that it cures rickets in children if they are passed through the stone three times in an anti clockwise direction, and its reputation for curing back problems earned it the name "Crick Stone." It was also seen as a charm against witchcraft and as a tool for fortune telling.

Ding Dong mine can be seen over to the SE and further up the track is Men Scryfa, a medieval inscribed stone.

Info from www.historic-cornwall.org.uk

This cache was placed first in two sections of the Spring 2010 Cache Blitz - click on the icons to see the certificates.